THE ETHICAL HEARTBEAT

At 22years, Vanessa thought she was just starting to chase her media dream at the Media Academy in mystic falls city. New in the city she kept her head high to survive and fit in the new life she chose.

But from the first day, something shifts.
Patrick Pearson. is introduced as the strict, untouchable senior mentor with a controlled presence, the kind of man who doesn't get involved in anything against his professional ethics. He is here to guide not break rules for a mysterious student. Yet somehow, he does.

​It begins in small moments during orientation, brief eye contact that lasts too long, a correction that feels personal, silence that somehow says too much. Nessa is sharp, stubborn and proud but something about him unsettles that confidence in ways she can't explain.
She tells herself its just professional, just coincidence or even her imagination.

​But Patrick starts remembering her too clearly for someone who is supposed to keep his distance. And in a place where boundaries are meant to be clear, their connection begins quietly breaking every rule from the very first introduction.

​THE ETHICAL HEARTBEAT is a mentor-student relationship fiction novel.